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The Interview Process in a Nutshell
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| Have you ever thought about the full cost of hiring a new employee? There are the obvious costs: placing an ad, the wages spent on time looking at resumes and conducting interviews, pre-employment physical, reference checks.
Then there are the less obvious costs: wages for training time of both the trainer and new employee, lost productivity while the position is vacant, lost productivity while the new employee learns and gets up to speed, the cost of mistakes.
When you add it all up it definitely motivates you to minimize employee turnover, doesn’t it? And there are many strategies an employer can utilize to create an environment that inspires employee loyalty. But the first and most important step is making the right hiring decision. |
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How to Execute Perfect Trade Shows
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| 12 tips for trade show management and marketing |
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Recruiting for Dummies
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| When facing the challenge of recruiting personnel, most organizations out there believe that a job posting and some behavioral based interviews will suffice to hire the best candidates—this is true at some point if you are recruiting for some technical jobs such as machine lifter or tractor driver, not that there is anything wrong with these jobs, but the pool of candidates and degree of job functions and expertise will differ if you are hiring a white collar or top executive. |
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“A Positive Look at Media Interviews and A Prescription for Successful Media Interviews”
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| As you read the headline, I can almost hear some of you asking, “How can there be anything positive about media interviews? I would rather go for a painful visit to my dentist than participate in a media interview.” Well, I want to tell you that in more than 35 years of media interviews in my professional career, I remain positive about media interviews and will share some thoughts with you. And just in case you might believe that all those media interviews were fun & friendly, I can assure you they were not.
So you are wondering how to look at media interviews in a positive light and view them as an opportunity to tell your story. Here is my prescription for you.
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Yes, No, Maybe So...How to Screen Resumes In and Out
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| Conducting job interviews is time consuming. Interviewing unqualified candidates is frustrating and even more time consuming. Read on to find out how to make the best use of your time by screening out unqualified job applicants and selecting only qualified applicants to interview. No more sitting through countless hours of interviews with people you would never hire! |
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Conducting a Job Interview - Part Art, Part Science
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| For some, conducting a job interview is like a trip to the dentist. It's painful. You get stressed out. You don’t know what questions to ask. You struggle to make the interview last longer than 15 minutes, or your interviews lasts hours and you feel like you've wasted your time. You don’t know how to evaluate the candidates' answers. In this article, learn 5 helpful strategies on how to run an effective job interview. Learn how to move beyond “gut-feel” and find the best employee for your business. |
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How Authors Can Be Outstanding Talk Radio Guests
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| Book publicist Scott Lorenz, President of Westwind Communications interviews nationally syndicated
talk show host George Woods. The topic, How Authors can be Outstanding Talk Radio Guests. Woods offers great advice on how to get booked on radio talk shows as well as conducting a first class interview.
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Conducting Job Interviews Made Easy
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| When you are hiring a new employee you naturally want the best person for the role. In a candidate poor job market you need to realize that while you are conducting job interviews with the candidate, they are also interviewing you to see if they really want to work for you. You need to be on your game – to make sure you leave candidates with a great impression of your company.
So, let’s start with the basics. Interviews are not an exact science. They are not meant to be. The best you can do is to try and remove as much of the emotion of the process as possible and balance it with logic.
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8 Reasons You Are Not Getting a Job Offer
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| Are you really too old, too young, overqualified or lacking the right education? Is the deck really stacked against you? Not likely!! Chances are you only need to improve the way you present yourself.
Recently, a lady approached me after one of our seminar presentations on Career Management. She had been through 63 job interviews and wanted me to look at her resume to see what was preventing her from getting job offers. Hearing that she had 63 interviews let me know I did not need to look at her resume at all; it was doing an excellent job, getting interviews is the only purpose of a resume. So her problem was not in the resume, but something in her personal presentation.
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How to Become Your Industry's Leading Expert in 30 Days
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| Many solo service professionals wonder how they will ever become known in their industry, given the easy access to the abundance of information found online. How do you create trust and authenticity with your target market and be seen as a real, true expert rather than as a sham? One of the easiest and quickest ways to do this is by interviewing experts in your industry. Here are the 10 steps you can follow to help you become your industry's leading expert in 30 days by conducting expert interviews: |
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The Interviewing Process: Do You Know the Rules?
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| As we draw closer to the summer, and spring semester of higher education creeps to closure, everyone in HR realizes that the time has come to prepare for the upcoming flood of job applicants. Are you up to date on the rules on conducting job interviews? Or, are you playing the role of the interviewee and don’t know the Do’s and Dont’s of interview etiquette? In this issue of Astronology, we will review the rules of interviewing-for both sides of the table. |
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Nailing A TV Interview
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| Print interviews are usually the easiest in terms of how you look and carry yourself. Those interviews are generally done over the phone. You could be in bed in your pajamas for all the interviewer knows. The same is often the case with radio. If you’re calling into the show, the interviewer has no idea what you look like, what you’re wearing, and if you’re in your living room or by the pool. Another upside of those types of interviews is that you can write out cheat sheets that you can refer to. But TV is a whole different animal. The following is your TV media appearance drill. |
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Behavioral Tips and Interview Questions
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| Today, most employers are using behavioral interviews instead of the traditional personal interviews for selecting the candidates. Behavioral interviews are the interviews where the candidate is given any situation and interviewer will ask the candidate about his reaction if he were in that particular situation. That means, the behavior of the candidate is reviewed in such interviews. |
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